The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.

The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Man is wise only while in search of wisdom; when he imagines he has attained it, he is a fool.

Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.

As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave.

If you want to keep something concealed from your enemy, don't disclose it to your friend.

There are three types of friends: those like food without which you can't live those like medicine which you need occasionally and those like an illness which you never want.

The Sage was asked to define good manners? to which he replied, To bear patiently the rude ones.

If on any given day you don't cry from rejoicing in the beauty of the world, then you have not lived that day.

Friendship is a word the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.

In almost any society I think the quality of the non-conformists is like to be just as good as and no better than that of the conformists.

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

If you're not paying for it through the health plan, you pay for it in the emergency room.

I'm not talking to anyone, I'm delivering a monologue. It's the inebriated man's prerogative.

Our responsibility begins with our imagination.

You can't come out on a record dissing the system and be on a label that's connected to the system.

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

So that's when I saw the DNA model for the first time, in the Cavendish, and that's when I saw that this was it. And in a flash you just knew that this was very fundamental.